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ISLAMABAD Dec 07 (TNS):<\/strong> The first death anniversary of renowned singer turned Naat Khawan and religious preacher Junaid Jamshed is being observed on Thursday (December 7). He died on this day in a plane crash while returning to Islamabad from Chitral last year.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan’s pop icon from the 90s is not amongst us anymore. Singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed and his wife Nayha Junaid were on board Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 on this day last year, which crashed en route to Islamabad from Chitral. Junaid Jamshed and Nayha were confirmed dead.<\/p>\n

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There will be no dearth of superlatives describing the public personality that was Junaid Jamshed. He was a man of many labels \u2014 a trendsetter, a spiritual inspiration, the center of much media attention and never far from controversy. As the nation paid tribute to the legend who died on the way to Islamabad from Chitral in a plane crash near Havelian city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, there was an overwhelming sense of the loss of a national icon.<\/p>\n

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Junaid Jamshed was born in Karachi on Sept 3, 1964. His father Jamshed Akbar Khan, who passed away earlier this year, hailed from Nowshera and was a retired officer of the Pakistan Air Force. His mother Nafeesa Akbar Khan was the granddaughter of the nawab of Loharu state, an 11-gun salute state under the British Raj. Relatives recall that Junaid had wanted to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps and join the PAF, but he couldn\u2019t fit the bill. He enrolled in the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore instead and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1990.<\/p>\n

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In one of his later interviews, Junaid said that fate had never agreed with the career path he had chosen for himself. He had had no plans on pursuing a career in music. The music followed him.<\/p>\n

From performing at a rock gig in Peshawar University in 1983, to becoming the front man for his university band Nuts and Bolts, until finally skyrocketing to fame as the lead vocalist of Vital Signs, Junaid\u2019s legacy as one of the most significant individuals in the Pakistani music industry had become indisputable.<\/p>\n

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The Vital Signs \u2014 fondly referred to as the Beatles of Pakistan \u2014 would set the bar for pop and rock music in Pakistan. ‘Dil Dil Pakistan’, released in 1987, would become an anthem that Junaid would acknowledge even as he later severed ties with the music industry.<\/p>\n

Three years after he released his last solo album, Junaid renounced music and decided to devote his life to Islam.<\/p>\n

Ayesha Salam, a cousin of Junaid\u2019s, remembers him fondly as being a truly generous person. As relatives and close family friends gathered at the house in Karachi where the family had only recently mourned the death of his father, there were prayers being said for all those who had died in the tragic PK-661 plane crash. She calls it a national tragedy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are mourning the deaths of all those who passed away in the plane crash. We are one in grief,\u201d she says. Ms Salam recalls that while many celebrities made public their philanthropic works, Junaid would never speak of them in public. \u201cHe was an incredibly humble soul,\u201d she says. Despite being a religious scholar with his own following, he never called himself an\u00a0aalim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Junaid was scheduled to deliver the Friday sermon at the Parliament Mosque this week and was on his way to Islamabad from a Tableeghi Jamaat mission in Chitral. Condolences poured in from around the world and several religious scholars, political figures and old friends took to Twitter to remember their old friend and comrade. Dr Mufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe, who was named one of the top 500 most influential Muslims in the world since 2010, tweeted: \u201cI am saddened by news of the death of #JunaidJamshed and his wife in a #PIA plane crash. May the Almighty grant ease to all in the tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Those who knew him say there was an aura around him, says Ms Salam. He will be remembered as a national singing icon, a pious and religious scholar, a TV personality, a successful entrepreneur, a politically conscious commentator, a philanthropist and a true gentleman. \u201cHe was immensely talented,\u201d she says, \u201cand there will never be another Junaid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though he put a halt to his music career in 2004 and devoted himself fully to Islam, Junaid’s songs will always be reminiscent of younger generation childhood. When they were feeling desolate, he gave them ‘Aitebar,’ when they were feeling patriotic, he gave them ‘Dil Dil Pakistan,’ when they had a crush, he gave them, ‘Sanwali Saloni,’ when they were going through heartbreak, he gave them ‘Samjhana,’ and the list is endless.<\/p>\n

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The 9 songs top their favorites from his singing days. They can’t stop listening to them on repeat: 1) Dil Dil Pakistan, 2) Sanwali Saloni, 3) Woh Kaun Thi, 4) Na Tu Aaegi, 5) Goray Rang Ka Zamana, 6) Samjhana,7) Chehra, 8) Ankhen and 9) Aitebar.<\/p>\n

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ISLAMABAD Dec 07 (TNS): The first death anniversary of renowned singer turned Naat Khawan and religious preacher Junaid Jamshed is being observed on Thursday (December 7). He died on this day in a plane crash while returning to Islamabad from Chitral last year. Pakistan’s pop icon from the 90s is not amongst us anymore. Singer-turned-evangelist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-35373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35387,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions\/35387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}